Thank you to the devs, company, and community that made Brave thrive!
I’ve been a Mozilla Firefox user ever since the 1.5 version in the 2000s. I’ve seen the rise and fall of Firefox and have clung to it for its flexibility & customization, developer tools, and extension market. I’ve used GreaseMonkey quite a bit over the years, but slowly started to move away from that as the extension community releases better extensions. I use uBlock Origin and ScriptSafe (previously used NoScript), building a whitelist of domains to allow scripts. My browser habits were fairly secure.
But all of that has changed with the latest Firefox 154.0 version which introduced a rather annoying bug that delays your saved logins & password from popping up in drop downs when you visit sites. That was sort of the last straw for me.
I’ve always had issues with Firefox. For example, Firefox’s problematic handling of simple Copy & Paste functionality. I see this when using CyberArk to remotely connect to server VMs in my daily work. And many sites not rendering correctly in Firefox or not even loading at all when they are geared towards the Chromium engine. This problem grew after Microsoft dumped IE and switched to Edge with the Chromium engine. And now Palo Alto Networks has Prisma browser for enterprise, which is also Chromium based.
In this day and age, Firefox is losing the battle for their engine. I support competition in the browser engine market, but Mozilla has floundered the past several years as they churn out more bloat, failed VPN services, and both bug regression and new bugs.
So now I’m happy with Brave. I love that I can use some Manifest V2 Chrome extensions. I miss having a menu bar, but I’m already used to that with Google Chrome as a sidekick for sites that have issues in Firefox. Now I can ditch both Firefox and Chrome after migrating to Brave.
I did the import from Firefox, customized my settings, added extensions, started a sync, and am up and running just fine!
Also, I still use TOR browser as well for better anonymity/security when needed. Nothing is hack-proof, but at least I have a fighting change with TOR for high security tasks and Brave for daily browsing.
So… thank you!